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MASKED MEN FIREBOMB SYNAGOGUE IN SWEDEN, LATEST IN A STRING OF ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS ACROSS EUROPE

December 10, 2017

On Saturday, twenty masked men firebombed a synagogue in Gothenburg — Sweden’s second largest city — with a barrage of Molotov cocktails. The attack occurred amid anti-Israel demonstrations in the city in response to the United State’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

As reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), the attack took place during a party held at the synagogue for local Jewish students. Waiting for police to arrive, the students took shelter in the synagogue basement. No injuries were reported.

BREAKING: Synagogue firebombed in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-largest city; twenty masked individuals involved; Jewish students gathered in the building huddle in basement for safety; authorities block off area to search for attackers. (Expressen) — @AviMayer, December 9, 2017

The attackers’ identities are not yet known, as police are still investigating the incident.

And in France, a virulently anti-Semitic organizer regaled more than 400 protestors with calls for boycotts against Israel, in addition to freedom for Palestinian terrorists, Hassan Hamouri (Hamouri was arrested in 2005 for planning to assassinate an Israeli rabbi) and Marwan Barghouti (Barghouti is serving multiple life sentences after being convicted of plotting multiple terrorist attacks).

Many will blame President Trump’s temerity to recognize a rudimentary historical fact regarding Jerusalem as the Jewish capital as the impetus behind Saturday’s blatantly anti-Semitic Swedish synagogue attack.

But what apologists for anti-Semitism attempting to bifurcate Jewish identity from the state of Israel fail to address, is that “anti-Israel demonstrators” aren’t attacking some arbitrary Israeli legislation, they’re attacking Jews.